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Judge Dismisses Charges Against Officers In Breonna Taylor’s Case, Faults Boyfriend For Death
Judge Tosses Out Felony Charges Of Two Officers Involved In The Raiding Of Breonna Taylor’s Home
A federal judge has now dismissed multiple felony charges against two police officers that got a warrant to enter Breonna Taylor’s home.
Back in 2022, two policemen, Joshua Jaynes and Sgt. Kyle Meany were charged with falsely submitting an affidavit to search Breonna’s home.
After the raid which led to Breonna’s passing, the officers allegedly created a fake cover up story to try to avoid any responsibility in Breonna’s passing. However, the judge is blaming a Breonna boyfriend.
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Judge Charles Simpson says the reason Breonna died was because her boyfriend shot at cops causing them to respond with lethal force.
The judge ruled that there was no correlation between the sketchy warrant and Breonna’s passing, but rather the actions of Taylor’s boyfriend, who fired a shot at police the night of the raid.
Back in March 2020 when police with a drug warrant broke down Taylor’s door, her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, fired a shot that struck an officer in the leg. Walker said he believed an intruder was bursting in. The policemen returned fire, striking and killing Taylor, a 26-year-old Black woman, in her hallway.
According to CBS News, Simpson concluded that Walker’s “conduct became the proximate, or legal, cause of Taylor’s death.”
“While the indictment alleges that Jaynes and Meany set off a series of events that ended in Taylor’s death, it also alleges that (Walker) disrupted those events when he decided to open fire on the police,” Judge Charles Simpson wrote.
